Braum's publishes real per-item ingredient statements for its ice cream and dairy but nothing at all for the grill side, so this rating covers the documented half only: 41 of 104 statements name a seed, vegetable or tropical oil and 101 of 104 carry a synthetic additive, with only plain milk coming back clean. Twenty products still list partially hydrogenated oil, and the fryer oil is genuinely unpublished, so the seed-oil score is a floor that could get worse once they answer.
Rated 2026-09-06. SCOPE MATTERS HERE: Braum's is a split chain. The retail/fountain half publishes real per-item statements in the page HTML at braums.com/ice-cream/<slug>/ and /dairy/<slug>/ - 104 of them (92 ice cream, 12 dairy). The grill half publishes NOTHING: 0 of 93 menu pages and 0 of 38 grocery pages carry an ingredient list. seed_oil=some at 0.5 is therefore a FLOOR, not a ceiling - 41 of the 104 statements name a seed, vegetable or tropical oil, and 20 still name a PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED oil, which is notable post-2018 and may mean those pages are stale. If the grill fries in soybean or canola the honest answer becomes all; do not upgrade without evidence. additives=all covers the ice-cream and dairy scope only, where 101 of 104 carry a synthetic additive - the only clean three are plain whole, reduced-fat and fat-free A2 milk. nova=some: vertically integrated is not the same as minimally processed. plastics NULL. Emailed for the fryer oil.